10 TV Show Endings That Get Better The More You Think About Them
9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Victory & Death
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a remarkable achievement for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is the way it fits into the wider Star Wars mythology whilst being apart from it as its own story.
In the show's epic, action-heavy finale Victory & Death, Ahsoka and Captain Rex are forced to battle their former soldiers, after which they escape into the night as fugitives from the Empire, and their former mentor Anakin Skywalker, who now rules the galaxy as Darth Vader.
It's with Vader that Victory & Death becomes deeper than meets the eye, following him in the show's final scene as he hunts Ahsoka and finds only the abandoned lightsaber he built for her. The implication of Ahsoka burying her lightsabers is that she's also burying Anakin, and the fallen Jedi she'll never see again.
In finding them, the episode is reminding audiences that there's still goodness in Vader, and that he recalls the impact his former padawan had on him throughout the show. Watching their earlier adventures is too much to bear knowing how it'll end.